Head Of Product - Equiniti : Job Details

Equiniti is a leading international provider of shareholder, pension, remediation, and credit technology. With over 6000 employees, it supports 37 million people in 120 countries.

EQ's vision is to be the leading global share registrar, offering complementary services to its client base and our values set the core foundations to our success. We are TRUSTED to deliver on our commitments, COMMERCIAL in building long term value, COLLABORATIVE in our approach and we IMPROVE by continually enhancing our skills and services. There has never been a better time to join EQ.

The Head Product Share Registration is accountable for the Global Proposition and Product line strategy, vision and objectives. The role ensures that the product line roadmap and prioritization aligns with the global product Line objectives and investment strategies. Head of Product works with the Director of Product, peers, and product managers to identify opportunities to simplify technology solutions and to identify new market opportunities and set pricing strategies in line with corporate policy and market benchmarks

Core Duties and Responsibilities

• Work closely with the Director of Product to set proposition and product strategy and vision
• Engage with regional product and proposition line executives and directors, sales and account management to measure product performance and to identify market opportunities across the global product catalogue.
• Engage with peers and product managers to identify common requirements and services to align product strategy, prioritization and ownership
• Translate the vision into an ongoing product strategy and key goals to measure performance against. Develop and regularly calibrate metrics for the tribe
• Accountable for product value, investment and retirement decisions and pricing strategies aligned to corporate policies and market benchmarks
• Instils an inquisitive culture to support ideation and a commercial, entrepreneurial view to launch new products and services
• Manage the entire product life cycle, from ideation to launch and post-launch maintenance. Drive, at a tribe level, the customer-centric experiences through the product cycle such as user research, UAT, user behaviour analysis
• Demonstrate deep customer understanding and defines and owns customer segment strategy, market research, go to market / marketing funnel strategy and competitor research
• Use both qualitative and quantitative research to assess the value of products and features in line with proposition priorities
• Articulate high-level requirements and provide direction to Product Managers. Distil business goals into product requirements
• Drive continuous product discovery to understand user needs and market opportunities and translate those solutions and product backlog across the tribe
• Drive prioritisation of products; own the prioritisation and backlog management across the tribe
• Support the product team by designing (and continuously contributing to improving) operational processes for running and maintenance of products or services throughout their Lifecycle
• Identify and mitigate risks associated with product development and launch
• Infuse a sense of ownership & pride amongst team members to deliver high-quality work outputs
• Institute a self-directed and high-performance culture in the team
• Build a strong talent pipeline through hiring, internal movements, succession planning, talent reviews etc.
• Enable a culture of continuous improvement and learning, by coaching team members and role-modelling self-development

Skills, Knowledge and Experience

Essential

• Any graduation preferably STEM subjects OR applicable work experience
• MBA specialized in Systems / Product Strategy / Marketing
• Significant Product Management experience in a software / product development
• Proven experience of interfacing with global, cross-functional teams to drive product delivery
• Product vision & discovery
• Profitability management
• Business case
• Commercial Strategy (Pricing & Monetisation)
• Compliance & Governance stewardship
• Success metrics & OKRs
• User journey & process mapping
• Market research
• Agile WoW
• Insights driven decision making

Desired

• PDLC management
• Backlog prioritisation
• Design systems
• Customer segment strategy

What We Offer

Save For Your Future - Equiniti Pension Plan; Equiniti matches your pension contributions up to 10%

All Employee Long Term Incentive Plan (LTIP) - Gives all EQ Colleagues the opportunity to benefit if the current owners successfully sell the company for a profit.

Health and Wellbeing - Employee Assistance Programme: counselling, legal & wellbeing support for colleagues and their households. Life assurance cover at 4x salary with the ability to purchase enhance cover.

Employee discounts - Discounts and cashback at your favourite high street stores through our EQ Wins Platform.

Flexible Benefits - The ability to purchase a wide variety of benefits through our flex plan; gadgets, travel insurance, will writing, holiday trading and more.

Time Off - 28 days holiday + bank holidays. 2 volunteer days to get involved with a charity of your choosing.

Winning together - Equiniti ICON award vouchers; recognising the individuals going above and beyond to help the business succeed.

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

Please note any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory pre-employment screening checks. These consist of 5 year activity & GAP verification, DBS or Access NI, Credit, Sanctions & CIFAS checks